Inside Vatican City, the home of Pope Leo, lies a vast collection of Indigenous artifacts and cultural objects that some ...

More than 80,000 ancient manuscripts from the Vatican Library will be restored and digitized thanks to an agreement with the ...

Cardinals attend the first day of the conclave to elect the successor of late Pope Francis inside the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican ... in the centuries-old ritual to elect a new leader of the 1.4 ...

Pope Francis' death set off a series of traditions that culminates in a vote for his successor. Here are some of the possible ...

Simply put, a conclave is the assembly of cardinals that elects a pope. The word itself comes from the Latin "com" and "clavis," meaning "together" and "key," respectively – highlighting the absolute, ...

VATICAN CITY ... a 54-year-old tourist from the Dominican Republic, was deeply moved to find herself by chance in the heart of Roman Catholicism as the church plans to select a new pope.